This post is about jobs you can do working from home, with pointers to where to find the legit jobs and how to avoid scam.
Working from home during summer is particularly important for parents. As children are out of school, finding affordable and reliable childcare during the summer months is quite a challenge. By working from home, parents can balance their work responsibilities with spending more quality time with their children.
Quick Ways to make extra money now
Sell printables – Selling printables is the easiest side hustle to make passive income. You can do it in your own schedule and earn over $10,000 a year selling simple printables.
Proofreading – Earn $15-20+ an hour proofreading online. Set your own schedule, choose what you want to proofread and when.
Surveys – Make money filling out surveys or playing games. You can earn up to $5 per task.
How to determine whether a work from home job is a good fit for you.
It is important to pick a job that:
Offers flexibility: so you can work when you want, where you want.
High Earning Potential
Has a Low Barrier to Entry: You don't want to spend a ton of time and money getting started.
Is Compatible with Your Interests or experience: it should be something you enjoy doing.
Minimal Stress: If you've escaped having office environment stressors - you don't need a remote job that adds to your stress levels.
With these in mind, keep reading to check out our list of work from home jobs, the perfect job that ticks all boxes may just be waiting for you.
Work form home jobs
1. Voice acting
If you have an attractive, calm or smooth voice, you could work from home as a voice over artist or actor.
A voice actor is someone who brings a script (text) to life by converting it to audio.
Some of the projects you can do as a voice-over artist include TV and radio projects, telephone greetings, video games, audiobooks, and animated projects.
Great places to find voice over jobs: voices.com, voice 123, voice bunny, filmless, the voice realm.
2. Marketing jobs
Marketing jobs typically involve helping businesses promote their products or services.
If you have a marketing degree, enjoy persuasive writing and are a social media expert, there are so many work from home marketing jobs available.
You can work specifically as an affiliate marketer where you get paid a commission when people buy products you promote.
You can find work-from home marketing jobs at:
You can also work as a digital marketer, where you create digital marketing materials to generate leads for your employer. Places to find digital marketing jobs include:
Twitter
Slack
Automattic
Bol Agency
Thirdly you can also work as a content marketing specialist. This involves creating content for a clients website, blog or email, using the right keywords that can persuade their target audience to take action. Explore the following companies if content marketing is of interest to you:
HostPapa
Uscreen
CafeMedia
3. Teaching English from your home
If you are a native English speaker, teaching English online may be a great work from home job for you. This job is in high demand as many non-native English speakers, especially in Asia, constantly need tutors to be fluent in English.
Thanks to virtual teaching platforms that can connect you with students, you only need a laptop and great internet to work as an ESL (English as second language) teacher.
Many Virtual teaching platforms will provide you with pre-made lesson plans, and you can choose your schedule based on your availability.
Here are some great places to find work:
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4. Work as a transcriber
Becoming a transcriptionist/transcriber is a great way to earn money from home. It involves converting audio or video recordings to a text file or document.
As long as you can understand what you hear and have a decent typing speed, you can work as a transcriptionist. You can typically work as a general, medical or legal transcriber.
Here are legit platforms to find transcribing jobs:
Crowdsurf
Quicktate
5. Blogging jobs
You can start a blog and earn money by allowing ads on your blog, through affiliate marketing or through sponsorships where you get paid to feature or write a review products.
It does take some time to become a well-known blogger. However, if you invest time and effort, you can grow your blog to the point of monetising through ads and sponsorships.
If you prefer not to start a blog, you can take up a job writing posts for other bloggers.
6. Driving jobs
If you own a car you can make money driving; either to deliver groceries or food when you work with Just Eat or UberEats. You can also drive to deliver online shopping when you work with a primate parcel company such as DPD or EVRI.
You can use your car for ridesharing with companies like Lyft or Uber.
If you are able to drive at Peak times, rush hours or make airport drop offs, you can easily make up to $100 a day with your car.
Just Eat
Uber Eats
Lyft
Uber
7. CV writing jobs
As a CV writer, you can help people get their dream jobs by writing a resume that stands out from the competition and sells. Here are some great places to find CV writing jobs:
8. Work as a Travel agent
If you love travelling and are good at planning, you can consider working from home as a travel agent. As an Online Travel Agent you can find work through websites like Expedia or Travelocity and earn money by booking travel arrangements for clients.
9. Create an At-Home Day-care
If you love kids you can start an at-home daycare and earn money while providing a valuable service for parents in your community. The kids you will look after will be brought to your home, It'll actually be a great way to give your child a playmate.
10. Online course creator
You can create and sell e-courses for virtually anything, so long as you are really good at it.
Need inspiration? Go to Udemy and check out the courses taken by thousands of students.
The great thing about course creation is, you only need the initial effort to create the course, for example, you can dedicate 1-2 hrs every night to put your course together. Once its done and it starts selling, you make money with little to no further effort.
It's a really flexible (eventually passive) source of income.
Here are some great platforms to create and sell your online course.
11. Freelance Writer
If you have a knack for writing, becoming a freelance writer may be the perfect job for you. Thanks to the digital age where every business wants to get online, content writers are in high demand.
Writing is a very flexible job. As a writer, you can choose to write when you want.
You can also choose the type of content you want to write; whether blog posts, sales copy, newsletters, or client emails.
Here are some places to find freelance writing jobs.
Fiverr
Upwork
12. Virtual Assistant
If you can handle emails, meeting scheduling, creating content, social media and general admin tasks, consider working as a Virtual assistant.
There are so many services you can offer as a virtual assistant. From general admin tasks, to more more specialist tasks like website design and email marketing. What you choose to offer will depend on your skills.
You should be uber-organised and detailed oriented to become a virtual assistant. If this sounds like the perfect job for you and you want to know more you can check this out.
Here are some companies hiring virtual assistants.
Amazon
13. Proof reading and editing jobs
If you have a sharp eye for detail, a passion for reading, and you know the style manuals for writing (CMS, MLA, APA or AP), it might just be the perfect job for you.
As a proof-reader, your main job is to ensure that written content is free of errors, both grammatical and typographical.
This can include anything from blog posts to academic papers to sales copy. You'll be responsible for catching mistakes that might have been missed by the writer or the editor, and ensuring that the final product is polished and professional. It's something you can do at any time of the day (or night) you find most convenient.
We've summarised the best companies hiring proof-readers and the countries they hire from.
If you are interested in reviewing books, Reedsy is actively recruiting and you can get your first job as a proof reader reviewing books for Reedsy Discovery.
14. Online tutoring
You can take a job as an online tutor for any subject you have expertise in. For many tutoring platforms you set your own rates, manage your own time and connect with thousands of potential students.
The most common tutoring jobs focus on Academic subjects (physics, chemistry, French, history, maths, coding, test preparation, etc.). There is also a huge demand for English teachers; I'll talk about this later.
Some of the best places to find online tutoring jobs include:
Lingoda
Indeed
Reed
15. Social media manager
If you are social media savvy you could work as a social media manager.
The role is to manage social media accounts for individuals or businesses. You'll be required to create and deliver content across several platforms (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, or TikTok), and engage with followers. You don't necessarily have to work on all platforms, you can choose to focus on platforms you are most familiar with.
There are many jobs available in social media marketing because companies have realised that social media engagement is vital for their growth.
Here are a few places to find social media manager jobs:
SimplyHired
SocialBee
Appen
Belay Solutions
Indeed
Fiverr - freelance
Upwork - freelance
Concluding thoughts
There are a variety of awesome work from home jobs to consider. Heer's wishing you the best as you find something you love and enjoy.
Thanks for stopping by!